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authority ~ speak for all the Demcc attic
members Of the Grand Army in Iowa.
You speak not for me.

how the G. 4. r has been repeatedly
used TO "0OCm" aspiring Republican poll
tiCjGDs into Office, that is known through.
cut the length and breath o. the land
We know how the "boomn was applied
last year in San Francisco Wrere al Ci
our Democratic generals were entirely
Ignored and uniDvited. But l desire &c
cal TouU attention to the heiuCusness Il
| year Cffense in Offering il = ,ur onicial
| CGp5City s. grand comm n9er of lowe
gross insults to the chief magistrate ofthe
United States. The gravity Of your crime
for crime II is to incite to disorder, is il
the tureaJ uttered By you IN your inter
view in last Sundays Register esd re-
| echoed by eX-GTahd Commander burdt Il
I at Washington, th&t the President would
| regret il # he should visit 81. Louis dur
/ Dg the grad enCimpment Of tae g. \.
| Ii What if tee comm lCder in chief
OF the army and navy Of the United States
shCuld visit ST. Louis in September?
! WHIST If some 'crauk"-of which there
are nun )ars il IOwa-5hOuid, instIgatod
OF your words, shoot the President as
Guiteau did The lam MED President Car
helg: WAT then would be your fati?
Would not the iutempsrste language used
by you and indOTsed by the Republican
press Of Iowa be quoted as dimu.4g
proof that you had publicly prOphesied
this yioicGc? | regard your Utterances
in threatening Insult and violence 10 the
President OF these United States 81 dis
graceful and unpa.riOtiC.
Did Democratic Grand Army zen
threaten or insult Republican President
when he Vetoed ne equalization e bounty
bill?
DID Democratic Glaud Army men
threaten or offer insults 10 another r.
publican President and the Republican
Senators who oppose the errearagos Of
pension sc; No, sir, they were TOO
iOyGI TO the government to permit ava
rice and cupidity 10 LEAD them into
treason.
IS YOUR CONDUCT JU5IIFI4BLEs
LIT us review, Comrade futile, the
grounds Of your proposed demonstration
against the commander Of the armies of
th651 United States, while he Is the guest
Il eis.er city ia aisister state. You say
"be vetoed the dependent pension bill"
True, ard he vetoed O.her bills IS it was
his right and duty - cljei executive to
do. Is president ore governor TO be
mGbGcG, buOted and inS ul.cJ eveTYtima he
Ofsnds loy portion Of the people, Wl2.
IlOIs-ruuS prOD0siliJu. |, IS
veteran soldier, favor a general pension
law" IS vel IS dependent pension bill,
but believe t9et the vetosd bill wss
properly vetoed because 1t was imperfect
ly constructed, - most Of our pension
legislation has been and is today. Even
now general pension Law IS being con-
81 eTGd aud canvasseG by our Grand Army
Of the Republic posts, aGd : suitable bill
ell no DOUBT DE evolved.
Nov CJmrade futile, I ask you in al
candor what good your proposed insult
TO the President will do the poor needy
veterans and their widows and orphans?
WIN /. assist IL the passage Of the new
bill?
WIN it strengthen the hands and ranks
Of the soldier friends il CJngress2
W.l il change TIE political complexion
CT tbs CrIge 1eY Congress?
AlG above all VIII 1t increase the ID8u-
rnCe Of She G. a. x. Whele, Il most needs
influence?
Yea heye already done much to weaken
the cSuse q Tie men you pretend TO
char lau. We need friendship and aid, !
nut bitter hostility and the coudemna-
ton Of the conservative element Of our
people. Iowa Is rot the United States, |
nor has the solder hobby been ridden in
every slztc IS it is being done in Iowa.
As TO DEMOCRATIC VETERANS.
You iH6uGed every Democratic soldier |
10 Iowa vixen you said: "The feeling |
against Cleveland is tremendously strong |
throughout the state. Democrats de- !
lcuECe him Is strongly as Republicans" |
Tbs | deny, sad challenge you for the |
proof. NJ decent, intelligent Democrat |
D.! I2ws would "denounce" the President |
IS you have done. The Democrats in |
Iowa are too loyal and patriotic to eL-
IOr5C sentiments which inCite to riot and |
assassination. You will see, il you at
tend the Grand Army enCampment in ST. !
Louis, That Democratic Grand Army men I
rom Iowa viii be there in force anaf Will
iiscOunt6neGce any action which might I
tend 10 disgrace the state of Iowa Inf
another place in your duly authenHs
Gated "iu.ervIew" in the g. D. and THE
you offer this gretuitOus Insult
your Democratic comrades with whom
YOU trained as Democrat until the Re-
DGDUcanS gave you al Offer for On Office.
Ever since the Democrats came into
power, there has been a drifting Ofnewly-
appointed UIiice holders into the ranks Of
ne Grand Army. For twenty years these
men kept out Of our organization because,
IS they said, there was too much RepU0-
iCa1ism about it. Within the past few
months these men have come into the
ranks in siugllariy large numbers, and
Il! say they are coming to st. Louis"
Is this true, CJmrade futile? Has this
Democratic administration
really appointed Union soldiers to Office
sin sinaul6rIy large numbers" and are
hey really "COmirg TO ST. LOUISE"
What a damaging confession is this.
Yet j. il true, so fsr as appointing
Democratic Union soldiers to office and !
Ing. tney will be Of 81. Louis in Septem-
yeT.
Among the "ofice-holders," I expect to /
meet and greet General w. S. Ro>ecrans,
he grand old hero of the "Army Of the
Cumberland" and Ct ,"West Virginia."
Iereral Franz Siegel, pension agent, New
! ok; General ID. c, Buel, pension agent
1t Louisville, Ky; General John c.
BLACK, commissioner Of pensions; Gen
rel Villas, Postmaster General; Colonel
LOllinger, pension sgent, Indianapolis;
Ir5. MulIigan, widow Of the gallant
Colonel Muiligsn Of Lexington, No,
sme, who is now pension agent &c
chicago; Csp,sin L2ke, pension agent at
Oes Moines; Captain Allen, pension
agent at San francisco, and with them s
lOst Of other good Democratic soldiers,